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JohnnyCanuck@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

'Dead' woman found breathing in coffin at own funeral

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JohnnyCanuck@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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Mourners in Ecuador realise the 76-year-old is still alive hours after she was placed in a coffin.
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  • florge@lemmy.world
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    Now she is in intensive care in the same hospital where doctors declared her death.

    Doesn’t sound reassuring.

    • DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml
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      Imagine if she gets declared dead in the same hospital twice

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    Aren’t bodies usually embalmed before funerals? In this case it’s a good thing she wasn’t, but usually it helps avoid the whole being buried alive problem.

    • packardgoose@lemmy.ml
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      In some parts of the world embalming is rare, either because of the cost or cultural taboos against it.

    • Bush Wizard@lemmy.mlB
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      I think it often depends on where the funeral is taking place. Where I’m from I don’t think bodies are embalmed.

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    “I’m not dead!”
    “I’m sure she will be soon, she’s very ill.”

    I’m guessing they just had an extremely weak pulse? I worry that hospitals will start cudgeling patients to make sure! Although I think I’d prefer that to waking up in a buried coffin…

    Perhaps we should bring back safety coffins?

  • Ghil@lemmy.ml
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    …that’s going to insure i have fresh new nightmare fuel for a while. My god.

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    It would be even stranger if she was found breathing in a coffin at someone else’s funeral.

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    Ah yes, my deepest fear…

    • Elrundir@lemmy.world
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      This is exactly why I want to be cremated.

      • JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world
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        Ah yes - burned alive

        • JadedIdealist@sh.itjust.works
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          Light a man a fire and he’ll be warm for the night.
          Light a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

          Terry Prachett.

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    Do they not embalm bodies?

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